The Food Bank will track food & fund drive donations made by teams at your organization. Teams may be created by department, classroom, building, location, or any other grouping you can think of. It's a fun way to generate competition, resulting in higher donations and feeding more people!
Financial Donations
Donating Online: Once your organization is enrolled, the Virtual Food Drive is the simplest way to keep track of team contributions. When donating through the Virtual Food Drive, your participants will simply select their team name from a drop-down list.
All financial donations received via check or cash must be labeled with your ID number and the appropriate team name (use the Donation Tracking Form) when submitted to the Food Bank and will take two to three weeks to appear on the progress page. This lag in reporting happens usually in November and December due to increased volume of gifts.
Food Donations
We will weigh team food poundage separately if you label the barrels with your team name prior to pickup. Below are detailed instructions for labeling each team's barrels:
- Collect food in separate barrels for each team.
- Barrels much be labeled clearly on an attached 8.5 x 11 piece of paper with each team name prior to barrel pickup.
- Be sure to secure barrel labels tightly, because they may fall off while on the truck or while being offloaded from the truck into the warehouse.
- Each team's barrels will be weighed and recorded separately at the Food Bank's distribution warehouses.
- An update of what each team collected will be posted online two to three weeks after it was received.